by OCSC | Jun 1, 2022 | Electric Consumers, Texas Legislature
Mandated by Senate Bill 3 from the most recent legislative session, the new rules create criteria for the content, activation and termination of regional and statewide power outage alerts. ________________________________________________ New rules to alert the public...
by OCSC | Oct 20, 2021 | Blog, Texas Legislature
The State Energy Plan Advisory Committee was created as part of Senate Bill 3, which state lawmakers adopted in response to February’s power crisis. ________________________________________________ Gov. Greg Abbott this week has announced four appointments to a new...
by OCSC | Oct 13, 2021 | Blog, Texas Legislature, Utility News
The lack of critical facility designations during Winter Storm Uri represented one of the largest underlying failures of both the electric and gas industries during the event, according to the coalitions. ________________________________________________ Although...
by OCSC | Sep 3, 2021 | Blog, ERCOT, Rates, Texas Legislature
HB 4492 includes within its 27 pages detailed language that pertain to the recovery of extraordinary energy-related costs falling broadly into two categories — the “default balance” costs and the “uplift balance” costs. ________________________________________________...
by OCSC | Aug 30, 2021 | Blog, ERCOT, Generation, Texas Legislature
Changing the “ancillary services” market should be part of discussions for a “reliability first” approach to managing the state power grid, according to OCSC. ________________________________________________ A number of important energy market adjustments —...
by OCSC | Aug 25, 2021 | Blog, ERCOT, Texas Legislature
Power sector weatherization is required under new omnibus legislation adopted in response to February’s statewide outages. ________________________________________________ Although still incomplete, legislatively mandated weatherization rules for Texas generators and...
